Although Kevin Love made a shot, Pau Gasol quickly responded with a shot.
After receiving a pass from Fisher, Pau Gasol once again held the ball on the left side of the free throw line and hit Kevin Love alone. Gasol made several fake moves in succession, but this time Kevin
-Love did not fall for the trick, but held his position firmly, resisting Pau Gasol and preventing him from getting into the paint.
After leaning back several times to no avail, Pau Gasol was not in a hurry, but slowly and steadily controlled the basketball in his hand, and suddenly threw the ball toward the basket.
This action was too fast and too sudden, and Kevin Love had no time to react, and this was a pass. Although the ball was high and floating, it was generally difficult for anyone to catch such a pass, but this
It's definitely not a mistake, because the Lakers do have a person on the court who can catch such passes and often catches such passes.
Dwight Howard soared into the sky like a rocket, with his head almost over the basket. Grabbing the basketball with one hand, Dwight Howard slammed the basketball into the basket.
Dwight Howard's wonderful dunk only attracted boos from the Amway Center stands. As a die-hard Magic fan, every Magic fan who came to the Amway Center to watch the game hated Dwight Howard's betrayal.
Although this betrayal allowed the Magic to acquire Adrian, and although this betrayal allowed the Magic to reach the Eastern Conference Finals again after more than ten years, this does not mean that the scars of betrayal no longer exist.
Adrian promised Stan Van Gundy to widen the score gap to 15 points as much as possible before the end of the first quarter, but now, the Magic have encountered trouble. This trouble is Pau Gasol.
After Kobe was substituted, Pau Gasol came to life completely.
This doesn't mean that Kobe's ability is inferior to Gasol's. It's that Kobe's style of play is much more unreasonable than Gasol's.
Gasol is not a particularly outstanding player in any aspect, but his ability in any aspect is quite good. He can score, he can assist, he can be a true core to score with all his strength, he can be a fake core to involve defense, and he can defend
, can grab rebounds and block shots. He can do pretty well whatever you ask him to do, and the most important thing is that no matter what you ask him to do, he will try his best to do it well.
This is a player who will definitely follow the tactical requirements.
Such players often lack domineering and self-confidence that is necessary to become a leader. At the same time, it is difficult to expect such players to rise up in adversity and carry the team forward alone. But with
At the same time, he is a player who will never mess around, will definitely follow the coach's tactical requirements, and can make the coach feel at ease.
When such a player bursts out with all his energy, it is definitely a headache. And there is no doubt that now, the Magic have just met a Pau Gasol who is in full condition.
Uh-huh...
Pau Gasol hit another mid-range shot.
Kevin Love waved his hand fiercely, and instead of preventing Pau Gasol from scoring, he even got a foul.
A hook layup that sneaked into the basket, an alley-oop pass assist, and this three-pointer. After the timeout, the Orlando Magic not only failed to widen the score gap as planned, but instead let
Pau Gasol relied on his own performance to further narrow the point difference.
On the sidelines, Stan Van Gundy could no longer sit still.
If Gasol is allowed to successfully maintain or even narrow the score gap between the two sides with his own performance, such a situation means that his strategy has failed, and the direct result is that Adrian, the Magic team, is currently
The absolutely crucial core may not have enough physical strength in the next game.
Stan Van Gundy almost hesitated to replace Adrian.
But he quickly resisted this urge.
If the strategy fails, it will fail. Although it will have an impact on the subsequent games and even directly lead to the final failure of the game, even so, it is better than making temporary adjustments and ending up with a mess of strategic and tactical strategies. Moreover, now
The most important thing is how to defend Pau Gasol.
"Mark, Kwame, warm up and get ready to play." Stan Van Gundy called out Marc Gasol and Kwame Brown from the bench. Then after Pau Gasol made a free throw, a timeout was called.
Stan Van Gundy has confidence in Marc Gasol's ability.
As the starting center of the Spanish team in the Beijing Olympics, Marc Gasol is a completely different type of insider from his brother Pau Gasol. Unlike Pau Gasol's outstanding offensive talent, Marc Gasol's talent
This is reflected in the defensive end, especially in terms of overall defensive awareness.
In the Spanish team, Marc Gasol always starts with Pau Gasol. Pau Gasol attacks and Marc Gasol defends. This pair of brothers has defeated all the powerful players in the international basketball world.
After all the hardships, even the U.S. team found it difficult to get any benefits from the inside when facing Spain.
Of course, the most important thing is that as a long-term teammate of Pau Gasol in the national team and also the brother of Pau Gasol, Marc Gasol must have a profound understanding of Pau Gasol's offensive habits and abilities.
Understanding this can give Marc Gasol an advantage when guarding Pau Gasol.
Replaced Marcin Gortat with Kwame Brown, replaced Kevin Love with Marc Gasol, and replaced Rashad Lewis with Maurice Evans, except for Adrian
Still staying off the court, Stan Van Gundy put on a full bench. The meaning of this substitution is simple and clear. In the following time, the offensive power will be completely handed over to Adrian.
Controlling the ball, Adrian slowly wandered around the three-point line, his head held high as if he was observing the situation on the court all the time. Now there are only 2 minutes and 48 minutes remaining in the first quarter.
Seconds, the score difference is 30:25, a gap of 5 points. It is obviously impossible to open up a 10-point difference in less than three minutes left, but Adrian is not ready to give up, even if
There was no way to widen the point difference to fifteen points, so he had to try his best to score and create more advantages for the next game.
The 24 seconds of attack time were consumed second by second, and there were only 8 seconds left in the attack time, but Adrian could not find any good passing opportunities.
"I can only do it by myself." Adrian thought, while leaning down slightly.
Bang bang bang, the sound of the basketball hitting the floor suddenly accelerated. He made a fake move to pretend to break through to the left. Adrian didn't care whether Ariza was deceived or not, he was already jumping high.
Adrian, who was jumping high, was about to shoot the basketball in his hand. At this moment, his expression changed slightly. Then, he gave up the shot without hesitation and chose to pass the ball. The basketball was pushed hard by Adrian.
It was thrown to the right side of the basket.
Kwame Brown took a step forward, caught the basketball, rose up from the ground, and dunked with both hands to score!
"Good job." Adrian patted Marc Gasol lightly on the shoulder.
Just now, Marc Gasol naturally made a lateral movement, which blocked Dwight Howard's line of sight. Because of the blocked line of sight, Howard was unable to see Adrian pass to Kwame.
-Brown's basketball was too late to defend. Although it was Adrian who assisted and Kwame Brown who scored, the fact that this ball was successful must be attributed to Marc Gasol's carelessness at least 50% of the credit.
on the first block.
Marc Gasol didn't speak, just smiled shyly, and then ran towards the backcourt.
"Sure enough, real geniuses are somewhat different, even if they lack experience now."
Remember that in the future, although Marc Gasol will be able to average 10+10 per game, it is well known that his greatest performance and ability on the court are not reflected in the data. Now, although he still lacks enough experience
, the technology is not perfect yet, but obviously, his characteristics have begun to show. (To be continued...)
